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Steroid PRO Initial Themes
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Background
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are a key treatment for inflammatory rheumatic diseases, but they cause a wide range of adverse side-effects which are of concern both to patients and clinicians.
Objectives
The objective of this study was to explore the impact of GC therapy on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) during treatment for rheumatic d...
Contexts in source publication
Context 1
... sampling of participants provided a broad range of demographic features, GC dosages and inflammatory rheumatic conditions, with 27% having connective tissue disease, 25% inflammatory arthritis, 30% systemic vasculitis and 16% other rheumatic conditions. Initial domains were developed to identify key themes relating to treatment using GCs and their impact on HRQoL; see Figure 1. A long-list of 134 initial candidate questionnaire items was developed from the individual themes. ...
Context 2
... most frequently applied outcome domains were self-efficacy, pain, physical functioning/disability, anxiety and depression, quality of life, fatigue, global assessment/disease activity and coping. Please see Figure 1 for all outcome domains identified. The applied measurement instruments varied within each outcome domain with up to 10 different instruments applied to measure the same domain. ...
Context 3
... sampling of participants provided a broad range of demographic features, GC dosages and inflammatory rheumatic conditions, with 27% having connective tissue disease, 25% inflammatory arthritis, 30% systemic vasculitis and 16% other rheumatic conditions. Initial domains were developed to identify key themes relating to treatment using GCs and their impact on HRQoL; see Figure 1. A long-list of 134 initial candidate questionnaire items was developed from the individual themes. ...
Context 4
... most frequently applied outcome domains were self-efficacy, pain, physical functioning/disability, anxiety and depression, quality of life, fatigue, global assessment/disease activity and coping. Please see Figure 1 for all outcome domains identified. The applied measurement instruments varied within each outcome domain with up to 10 different instruments applied to measure the same domain. ...
